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speed up media scanning?

does any one know of a way to speed up media scanning of external_sd and usb storage upon reboots?
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in ROM toolbox app they have a tweak for that but ive never tried it to be honest but its located in the peformance tab when you open up the app and of course you must be rooted running a custom ROM
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Try sd booster or sd speed increase in the market. Raise value to 2048 and set on boot . It made a slight difference on mine when booting up.
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most the custom roms already increased the size of the cache for the sd cards...i might be wrong but from what ive read its the cache size that determines the speed ...but as someone posted earlier speed increase worked great when i had my evo...especially if ur on a stock rom

sergioperalta81 said:
most the custom roms already increased the size of the cache for the sd cards...i might be wrong but from what ive read its the cache size that determines the speed ...but as someone posted earlier speed increase worked great when i had my evo...especially if ur on a stock rom
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thats because the evo's was defaulted to like, 4. it helped SO much lol. i used the sd booster in rom toolbox on both my evo and e4gt and set it to 2048. worked GREAT on evo. but imho, the speed increase is only slightly noticeable on my e4gt. not so much that i swear by it like on my evo. but, i still run it lol

i'm not really speaking on speeding up the process itself, im more or less wondering if we can get it to trigger faster. upon a fresh flash its always fast, but as time goes by and more and more apps get installed it starts to initiate 20-40 seconds after phone is up and running and lock screen hss already been opened
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Add a .nomedia file to folders of any files that you dont need scanned on boot up. I do this to my folders with all my Roms and kernels and anything else that I dont want scanned on boot. This will save a good bit of time if you have alot that it scans. Sorry just read your last comment and i am not sure on how to make it start sooner. I dont know if that is possible.

Scubaasteve said:
Try sd booster or sd speed increase in the market. Raise value to 2048 and set on boot . It made a slight difference on mine when booting up.
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Weird thing I noticed after playing with that setting is SD card bench marking apps, the read and write speeds slowed down after raising the value.

musclehead84 said:
Add a .nomedia file to folders of any files that you dont need scanned on boot up. I do this to my folders with all my Roms and kernels and anything else that I dont want scanned on boot. This will save a good bit of time if you have alot that it scans. Sorry just read your last comment and i am not sure on how to make it start sooner. I dont know if that is possible.
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Could you go into more detail on how to make this no media file and how to use it correctly? Thanks
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Mynaga said:
Could you go into more detail on how to make this no media file and how to use it correctly? Thanks
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i second this, quite a good idea, please share your wisdom?

stretchwookie said:
i second this, quite a good idea, please share your wisdom?
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Sure. Use a file explorer app like astro or es file explorer. Pick the folder u want to do it for. Open it up and create a new file. Name it
.nomedia so for instance if u did this on the root of your SD card nothing would get scanned (btw I don't advise that) hope that helps guys.
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musclehead84 said:
Sure. Use a file explorer app like astro or es file explorer. Pick the folder u want to do it for. Open it up and create a new file. Name it
.nomedia so for instance if u did this on the root of your SD card nothing would get scanned (btw I don't advise that) hope that helps guys.
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Oh man, that easy? I'm sorry then, I thought it was more complicated. You get a thanks!

If you are rooted, "Rescan media root" will fix your issue.
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Where did my pictures go?

This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?

smokeey69 said:
Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?
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Yes. The folders that they were in are now empty.

bbaaccoonn said:
This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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I don't know of any ROMS that will wipe the sdcard. Did you check the DCIM directory with root explorer or via USB from your PC?

Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O well, have fun finding the pictures/ taking them again.

Besides the attributes getting changed by accident to hidden, I'd cough it up as a loss unless you can manage to do a file recovery program to scrape them off somehow
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Probably got corrupted, do as advised and run a recovery search
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bbaaccoonn said:
Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O&O Software makes a really good file/folder/partition recovery program. I'd imagine it would work on sd, but im not 100% sure.. It never hurts to check

That's always my biggest worry when switching to a new ROM, because all my videos and pics are of my kids for the most part.
I personally don't know the best way to get them back, and the position you are in really sucks. What I tend to do is backup all my photos and pictures to my external SD card (32gb, so I have the space). Also make a backup on my computer and make another backup through a cloud storage program of your choice, I am currently using Drive.
I know that is a bit of overkill, but again, they are pics and vids of my kids growing up so I want to be 100% certain they don't get lost.
Hopefully you are able to find those pics, if not, perhaps my suggestion will help you in the future. Peace.

Thanks for the help, those who actually suggested something. I used some app from the gay store and it was able to recover some of my pictures, but not all. I suppose I'll just have to be more careful and make backups in the future.
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Google music and flashing new roms.

We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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Kinz1980 said:
We have been blessed with so many devs for the incredible 2, that it can be easy to flash a new Rom often. My question is this:
How can I keep my google music that I keep on the device to each Rom? That way I don't have to download it each time I flash a new Rom or update one with a full wipe?
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Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?

It should be in the cache folder on the sdcard. /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music

gtdtm said:
Do you mean music you keep on your sd card?
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Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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I found that location. Can I I just copy and paste into another file on the root of the sd card?
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Kinz1980 said:
Not exactly. It is my music that I keep on device so I am not steaming. So maybe yes.
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Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.

gtdtm said:
Music on your sd card under mnt>sdcard>music, shouldn't be affected when you flash a rom.
If you recently flashed a rom and it is no longer showing up, you may have a media bug that seems to be going around. I would recommend reading through the rom thread to see possible solutions.
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I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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Kinz1980 said:
I am getting ready to flash another Rom. I copy and pasted the location above with the google cache the file seems to have all the music it is just all as numbers in a mp3 format.
So I guess I will give it a whirl and post back.
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fyi...if you do have the same problem many of us had, flashing a rom may not correct it, but deleting a file on your sd card root called .nomedia may fix it even without a flash...

I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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Kinz1980 said:
I failed :banghead:
I am going to try another file manger and see if I can have a better success copying and pasting.
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You really need to be more specific with what you are trying to accomplish. If you are wanting google play music to just remember what music you have in your account, titanium backup works very well for me, I believe it also keeps the music that got cached by play music to play offline.
If it is music you proactively transferred to your sd card and your phone isn't seeing it, you need to reconsider my advice of searching through the rom thread for a fix. I don't believe you have mentioned which roms you have tried, nor did you acknowledge if you had looked for the .nomedia file.

Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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Kinz1980 said:
Your correct,sorry about that.
I am trying to keep the google music cache. (i think). I have done something to tb in the settings or something to where it won't restore it.
Tb just has so many things you can do with it that I think I have messed some stuff on it. Maybe with having different profiles.
Maybe I should just clear all my data with it and start over. And then backup my phone three easy I have it now?
And no I have not found the nomore file. Would that be under the music or somewhere else in android?
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The .nomedia file would be in the root of your sd, but that won't apply if you want to just preserve your cache info. Here is what I would recommend, although I haven't used profiles in titanium, so take it fwiw...
In each profile of titanium, tap on google play music and tap delete. Then go into manage apps, tap on google play music, clear data.
Then go into google play music, make sure it signs your account in, let it run the process of finding all of your cloud music.
When that is done, go back into each profile of titanium, backup google play music, flash new roms, profit...
I don't know if it will work, but I think it is your best shot.

Okay I still am missing something. I cleared all data in google music.
I uninstalled the app.
I cleared all data on TB.
I deleted all the files on the sd card for TB.
I reinstalled both apps and set it up.(meaning getting all my music to on device.)
I backed up everything.
Flashed new rom (ukb)
Restored my apps and data.
=fail it just installed the app not the cache, to tell google that it is there. Unless TB does not save the music? So now I am unsure what to do?
I guess I will have to get all my music in a folder and place it on the sd card somewhere (which in turn I am nit sure where; in order for gmusic to see it.
Any other thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!
Now that we have the leak for the dinc2 I am sure there will be some fun stuff to flash soon!
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[Q] Loose all Photos after Flashing new Rom

I seem to be having an issue which started just recently anytime I flash a new rom or nightly release of AOKP or CM10 all the content in my DCIM/Camera seems to be gone the content in the thumbnails folder is still there but the photos at completely all gone any ideas what could be causing this issue? Thank you in advance.

The photos are gone in your internal sdcard?
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well I just checked all images are gone... internal and external photos.. images..wallpapers... just gone very strange plugged into pc and I see some of the files there for the images and the file size but can't copy any of them and on the phone the folders are just empty

Maybe you could get lucky using a data recovery tool on your sdcard. There should be some free/trial ones on the net. You just gotta search em out.
As for why....no idea. Obviously it shouldn't be doing that! Maybe the updater-script does something like format data or something...though tgat diesnt make sense either....has anyone else in the rom thread reported this too?
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Actually someone said that they had the same issue with AOSP roms and started using quickpic instead and solved the issue

I don't understand how an app could stop the files from getting deleted.
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vopezy said:
I don't understand how an app could stop the files from getting deleted.
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Indeed I mean my new pictures I'm taking seem to be staying but everything all of my 700 images and pictures are gone nothing left which is very strange how only all the image media got wiped on external and internal sd

I don't see why or how but is it possible they were somehow actually stored in the apps data/cache folder and just linked to the sdcard??
It seems far fetched but its the only real explanation I could come up with other than something being corrupt and not working as intended.....
That's an odd one man.
Have you looked into any data recovery tools? I've heard of some success with them dealing with flash media like sdcards.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I don't see why or how but is it possible they were somehow actually stored in the apps data/cache folder and just linked to the sdcard??
It seems far fetched but its the only real explanation I could come up with other than something being corrupt and not working as intended.....
That's an odd one man.
Have you looked into any data recovery tools? I've heard of some success with them dealing with flash media like sdcards.
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I'll look into the recovery tool and I was thinking the same with it being tied to the cache as well just really strange never had this issue before

Recover deleted Photos

I was trying to transfer some photos from my note 2 to my computer and I accidentally deleted them through finder in the android file transfer app. I think they may have been in the internal phone memory and I really want to get these pictures back please help.

Google recova or something like that
It finds them on pc and sd cards
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StarLog said:
Google recova or something like that
It finds them on pc and sd cards
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I don't think they were on the sd card because in my gallery i can see two different types of folders one says camera and the other one says camera with a lil pic of an sd card on it and they got deleted from the first folder

If you're rooted you can use Hexamob Recovery or Undelete For Root Users. Otherwise search the Play Store for file recovery apps, but there's a chance you have to be rooted for one to work.
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ImYourMacDaddy said:
If you're rooted you can use Hexamob Recovery or Undelete For Root Users. Otherwise search the Play Store for file recovery apps, but there's a chance you have to be rooted for one to work.
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I'm not rooted and haven't been able to find any apps that can recover...the pics were on the phone's internal memory and not the sd card which is why I'm guessing that these recovery programs i downloaded on my mac haven't been finding anything to restore

StarLog said:
Google recova or something like that
It finds them on pc and sd cards
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Dude recuva has saved my ass numerous amounts of times. Its why I love it recommend it whenever.:thumbup:
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slicingtaco said:
Dude recuva has saved my ass numerous amounts of times. Its why I love it recommend it whenever.:thumbup:
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even if they were deleted from internal storage?

Try it and see. If it doesn't work, root the phone. They all work for internal memory if the phone is rooted. Been there, done that.
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The longer you wait, the more likely you won't be able to recover. Those areas they were stored may get written over again. Just try. At this point it seems you have nothing to lose.
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The longer you wait, the more likely you won't be able to recover. Those areas they were stored may get written over again. Just try. At this point it seems you have nothing to lose.
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Well its a matter of the data being over written by newer data. He can wait days without overwriting and still be able to recover it.
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Well its a matter of the data being over written by newer data. He can wait days without overwriting and still be able to recover it.
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I think that's what I just said.
If you do need root for any of the recovery apps, install exynos abuse (found in these threads). It's a quick apk install and a quick button click to gain root. I just hope installing yet one more app doesn't write over those sectors. Perhaps as a last resort.
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